> > Although even that doesn't ring true all the time. For instance, I met a fellow tourist in Hawaii once who was mistaken for a native there, by other natives. She said that back home in California, people often spoke Spanish to her, thinking she was Mexican/Hispanic, although she was actually of Japanese descent. I guess she just had a nice sort of "multicultural" look about her, or something.
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> I get mistaken for other nationalities all the time for some reason, although only because of my voice.
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> Recently I was asked if I was from New Zealand, because of my inflexion. Before that, I was thought to be Australian by two girls from England in Miami Airport. It also turned out they lived less than twenty miles away from me. A user at a site I was working at thought I was South African and several Americans have thought me to be Australian, too.
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> I suppose it's useful if I want to be sort of anonymous.
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> Bea"English Essex lad and proud of it."sty

When I was a kid and we lived in Florida, people used to think my father was a Cuban. He had black wavy hair and a Clark Gable mustache. About 99% of his ancestors were English.
Howard